Category Archives: Global Finance

While you were watching Libya…

The Obama administration has agreed to a deal that will allow Mexican trucks and drivers cross the border into the United States. Investor’s Business Daily Seattle Times This was a requirement in NAFTA, the trade agreement with Canada and Mexico … Continue reading →

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And now for a different perspective

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/ford030311.html The monthly review is a Socialist publication. In their view, the Rebels are actually backed and armed by European and Americans – and one of their goals is to kill the black Africans that live in Benghazi, doing the … Continue reading →

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What is a Sovereign fund?

Contrary to what the Fox News rodeo clown said this morning, the United States does not have a sovereign fund. Sovereign funds are very important, but you need to understand them before you start ringing every alarm bell in your … Continue reading →

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Glenn Beck and Bear Stearns

Glenn said something around 11:40 ET that I’ve thought for a long time, but thought it not responsible to state as a fact. In the context of the Pentagon report about the conspiracy to destroy the financial system, Glenn said … Continue reading →

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Nuclear war isn’t all bad

National Geographic reports that “A Small Nuclear war could Reverse Global Warming for years” Wasn’t their magazine more fun when it was just legal porn?

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Should California split into 2 (or more) States?

Following up on the West Virginia story, would it be a good idea if California followed the provisions in the Constitution and ask to subdivide into more than one State? California is home to 37 million people (more than 10% … Continue reading →

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How about $400 billion? Can we still be Kings?

Oh boy! The Saudi Royal family is offering up $36 billion to its poor and middle class to fend off unrest and $400 billion over the next 3 years. The Story The first red flag is they’re going to give … Continue reading →

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How bad science happens

I worked briefly in the 1980s for a doctor who was a pioneer in arthroscopic knee surgery to repair ACL tears.   He came up with a theory that by doing a certain procedure he invented that he could help people … Continue reading →

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Mexico’s gasoline shortage

One of the shows I was listening to during testing mentioned that the United States exports a lot of refined oil products made from imported crude – which sounds interesting given the rhetoric of “The United States hasn’t built any new oil … Continue reading →

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The WTI/Brent oil spread

West Texas and Brent (North Sea) oil are fairly similar, but there is a big ocean in between.    Under normal circumstances, the prices of the two oils are fairly close. Back in 2007/8 when oil hit $140 a barrel, the … Continue reading →

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Would you like a 1% mortgage?

I’m looking through the enumerated powers in the Constitution, but I’m coming up empty.    “General welfare” does not mean “One person’s welfare” I was looking for a stream on a radio station in Geneva Ohio, and the front page has an … Continue reading →

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CNN: The perfect social housing project

the story After Mozambique “decolonized” itself (translation: killed the remaining Europeans who were too stupid to leave), this abandoned 110 room hotel became the home to upwards of 2500 people, living without water, toilets or electricity. The longer things go … Continue reading →

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If Republicans were serious

This week’s symbolic show of proposing symbolic cuts will never pass the Senate and will never be signed by the President and everyone in DC knows that. Even if it passed, it’s less than a 2% cut from what is … Continue reading →

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Can a business refuse to hire the unemployed?

So this is the latest twist – are people who don’t have a job a “protected class”?   At first blush, it sounds like nonsense that a business would want to hire people but tell people without a job not to … Continue reading →

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Iran & the Suez Canal

Pull up a map of the Middle East.     Iran is reported to be sending ships to Syria through the Suez Canal.    Iran has no border with Syria – to send anything from Iran you have to go through either … Continue reading →

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